This document discusses the risks of web scraping for real estate property portals. It notes that web scraping, while sometimes legitimate, can also be used maliciously to steal intellectual property and gain competitive advantages. The real estate industry saw a 300% increase in bad bot traffic in 2015. Web scrapers can replicate real estate portal data and platforms for a low cost, hurting the revenues and SEO rankings of legitimate portals. The document promotes the services of Distil Networks, which provides bot detection and blocking solutions to enhance data and clean up traffic from malicious bots.